The editors and staff of Knight News at the University of Central Florida were presented Oct. 22 with the annual College Press Freedom Award, in recognition of their extraordinary determination in pursuing disclosure of public records in the face of brutal attacks by their university.
Kentucky’s attorney general says the commonwealth’s flagship university is willingly violating the law by refusing to hand over documents for the attorney general’s review.
The 9th Judicial Circuit Court for Florida issued an order Thursday granting a student news outlet’s request for unredacted Student Government Association budget records from the University of Central Florida.
A public school district cannot rely on the FERPA privacy statute to selectively withhold basic demographic information about students from certain unwanted requesters, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled.
The University of Central Florida is asking a court to order a student-run news website, Knight News, to pay the university’s attorneys fees in an open records lawsuit the student media outlet filed against the university.
A petition has been filed asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether security videos should be classified as educational records under federal law.
Naperville’s North Central College, located in an affluent suburb just west of Chicago, acknowledges receiving reports of 10 sexual assaults over the most recent available three-year period. But that’s all they’ll acknowledge.The circumstances of each case – even the locations, dates and times – are a closely guarded secret because, Dean of Student Kimberly Sluis… Continue reading What/where/when of sexual assaults is a FERPA secret, Illinois college claims
The Alabama Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a newspaper seeking names of students who lost their football scholarships at Alabama State University.
The University of Kentucky has violated state open records laws twice within the last year, according to opinions from the Office of the Attorney General.
A college in Minnesota and a high school in Georgia are both facing uncomfortable questions about why they delayed notifying the public about reported sexual assaults on campus. Their responses: FERPA made me do it.In Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus College sent a campus-wide email alerting the public to a sexual assault – nearly two weeks after… Continue reading A FERPA Fact double header: Do privacy laws really make it illegal to warn the campus about rapes?